Thraupis sayaca obscura Naumburg, 1924

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 83-84

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/775.1
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scientific name	Thraupis sayaca obscura Naumburg
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Thraupis sayaca obscura Naumburg View in CoL

Thraupis sayaca obscura Naumburg, 1924: 111 View in CoL ( Parotani , Dept. Cochabamba, Bolivia; alt. 8800 ft.).

Now Thraupis sayaca obscura Naumburg, 1924 View in CoL . See Hellmayr, 1936: 220–222, Isler and Isler, 1999: 186–188, and Dickinson, 2003: 807.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 138334 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Parotani , 8800 ft, 17.34S, 66.21W ( Paynter, 1992), Cochabamba, Bolivia, on 28 June 1915, by Leo E. Miller (no 12679) and Howarth S. Boyle. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Naumburg cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed her type series. Paratypes are: Bolivia, Cochabamba Dept., Parotani , AMNH 138333 About AMNH , 138335–138339 About AMNH , 148897 –148900 About AMNH , four males, six females ; Todos Santos , AMNH 138340 About AMNH , 148342–138345 About AMNH , one male, four females ; Tujima , AMNH 139790– 139792 About AMNH , three males ; Vinto , AMNH 138330 About AMNH , 138332 About AMNH , male, female ; Santa Cruz Dept., Vermejo , AMNH 139793 About AMNH , male ; California , AMNH 139785–139787 About AMNH , male, two females ; Valle Grande , AMNH 139794 About AMNH , male ; Rio Grande , AMNH 139795 About AMNH , male ; Chilon , AMNH 139788 About AMNH , 139789 About AMNH , two males ; Sucre Dept., Rio Cachimayo , AMNH 139774– 139780 About AMNH , three males, four females ; Rio Pilcomayo , AMNH 139781 About AMNH , 139782 About AMNH , two males ; Pulque , AMNH 139783 About AMNH , male ; Aplobamba, AMNH 78972 About AMNH , 78973 About AMNH , male, female. Argentina, Salta Prov., Embarcacion , AMNH 142088–142090 About AMNH , 142104 About AMNH , three males, one female ; Tucuman Prov., Tafi Trail , AMNH 142093–142095 About AMNH , 142101 About AMNH , 142102 About AMNH , two males, three females ; Sariemento , AMNH 142091 About AMNH , 142092 About AMNH , two males ; above San Pablo , AMNH 142096–142100 About AMNH , four males, one female ; Santiago del Estero Prov., Suncho Corral , AMNH 142103 About AMNH , female ; Missiones Prov., Puerto Segundo , AMNH 154261 About AMNH , male ; Buenos Aires Prov., AMNH 154259 About AMNH , 154260 About AMNH , two males, Barracas al Sur, AMNH 146797 About AMNH , female. Of these paratypes, I did not find AMNH 138330 in the collection. AMNH

138331, and 139784 were not part of the type series; they were exchanged to BIM in 1923, before obscura was described. The entire BIM bird collection was donated to AMNH in 1935, and they were returned to AMNH at that time.